A queer paranormal horror novel in the style of showrunner Mike Flannagan, showing the complex real-life terror inherent in grief and mental illnessAfter the tragic death of their father and surviving a life-threatening eating disorder, eighteen-year-old Ellis moves with their mother to the small town of Black Stone, seeking a simpler life and some space to recover. But Black Stone feels off; it's a disquieting place surrounded by towns with some of the highest dea...

Contains books one and two of the Ascension Gate series.A gateway to the stars. A colonization mission gone wrong.The Marines hold the fate of our universe in their hands.It was supposed to be a peaceful exploration, Earth's first step in expanding to the stars. But, no plan survives first contact. Thrown into a battle for survival against the deadliest threats imaginable, the Marines must contend with ice and desert planets with mysterious creature...

In Emily Jane's rollicking debut, when spaceships arrive and then depart suddenly without a word, the certainty that we are not alone in the universe turns to intense uncertainty as to our place within it. "Weird and sweet … like a 2020s White Noise: loud and colorful Americana with a sprinkle of apocalyptic doom."—Edgar Cantero "Heartfelt, witty, and secretly romantic … a delightful and poignant story about what it is to be human, and what we owe each other." —Christina Lauren Since long ...

“Luke” Hamilton has been living as a husband and father for the past seventeen years. No one but her wife, Nora, knows she is not the man she appears to be. They have raised their daughters to become honest and hard-working young women, but even with their loving foundation, Amy and Nattie are hiding their own secrets.Just as Luke sets out on a dangerous trip to Fort Boise, a newcomer arrives on the ranch—Rika Aaldenberg, who traveled to Oregon as a mail-order bride, hiding that sh...

The celebrated and beloved New York Times bestselling author of the modern classic Fun Home presents a laugh-out-loud, brilliant, and passionately political work of autofiction, adapted for audio by the author herself and brought to life with a full cast star-studded cast including Alison Bechdel as Narrator, Jenn Colella as Alison, and Ali Liebegott as LoisIn Alison Bechdel’s hilariously skewering and gloriously cast new comic novel confection, a...

“Luke” Hamilton has always been sure that she’d never marry. She accepted that she would spend her life alone when she chose to live her life disguised as a man.After working in a brothel for three years, Nora Macauley has lost all illusions about love. She no longer hopes for a man who will sweep her off her feet and take her away to begin a new, respectable life.But now they find themselves married and on the way to Oregon in a covered wagon, with two thousand miles ahead...

Bloomsbury presents Beings by Ilana Masad, read by Hayden Bishop, Renata Friedman and Jesus E. Martinez.From the celebrated author of All My Mother's Lovers, a new novel based on true events asks whether extraterrestrial life might be what ties us to one another, to history, and to reality itself.“Ilana Masad is an exciting talent."—Garth Greenwell“Masad is a writer on the rise."—Kristen Arnett...

Julie Mercer donated her eggs to help her brother and sister-in-law conceive via in-vitro fertilization, never expecting a few years later, she would have to take full responsibility for those children after they lose their parents in a car accident. Julie never wanted kids of her own, and now she suddenly needs to make room in her small apartment for four-year-old twins who thrust additional challenges at her as they work through their grief and trauma. With Lucy throwing intense tantrums...

A single, 35-year-old career nanny decides to have a baby of her own in this incandescent debut novel unsettling traditional narratives about motherhood, gender, class, domestic violence, and the politics and labor of care.“In the midst of so many literary reconsiderations of motherhood, this book announces itself as an essential left-field addition to the contemporary canon . . . Nanny Nanny comes at you like an incendiary secret, a sweet and dang...

Two estranged childhood friends find themselves on parallel paths to return to the site of the conversion therapy camp that tore them apart.Delia Barnes and Ernest Wrangham met as teens at Celebration Camp, a church-supported conversion therapy program—a dubious, unscientific Christian practice meant to “change” a person’s sexuality. After witnessing a close friend suffer a devastating tragedy in the hands of the camp “counselors,” they escaped in the night, only to take separate r...

Rainbow Book List title**"An absolute, triumphant delight from the first word until the last. Told in a playful, witty voice with crackling banter and tension that could power a city, you will fall in love—with this book, with these characters, with everything."**—Jeff Zentner, William C. Morris Award-winning author of In the Wild Light**"A fizzy, funny, heartfelt romp that treads the delicious line betw...

A dark, epic fantasy about a girl who must rethink everythingshe believes after she is betrayed and hunted by the religion that raisedher—from Megan Bannen, author of The Bird and the Blade. Perfect for fans of TheWinner’s Curse and The Girl of Fire and Thorns.Gelya is a Vessel, a girl who channels the wordof the One True God through song. Cloistered with the other Vessels of herfaith, she believes—as al...